Exit polls show economy top issue among worried voters

WASHINGTON (AP) - Exit polling suggests voters are intenselyworried about the future of the economy and unhappy with the wayPresident Barack Obama and Congress have been running things. According to preliminary exit poll results, a strong vein ofdisappointment ran throughout demographic groups, landing heavilyon Democrats. The survey found that women split their House votes. Men favoredRepublican candidates. The tea party made a splash in its first election. About fourout of 10 voters endorsed the movement. While a majority of voterssaid the tea party was not a factor in their House vote. Six out of 10 independent voters said they disapproved of thejob President Barack Obama is doing. Voters overall didn't hold a favorable view of either theRepublican or Democratic parties and overwhelmingly, peoplesurveyed were dissatisfied with the way the federal government isworking. The economy eclipsed all other issues. Almost everyone surveyed-- more than 80 percent -- expressed worry about the direction theeconomy will take over the next year.

(The preliminary results are from interviews that EdisonResearch conducted for The Associated Press and television networkswith more than 12,800 voters nationwide.There is a margin ofsampling error of plus or minus 1 percentage points for the entiresample, higher for subgroups.)

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